| Vehicle ID: | 44 |
| Flights: | 11 |
| Model: | Astron Alpha IV |
| Manufacturer: | Estes |
| Recovery: | Parachute |
| Status: | Operational |
| Parachute replaced with a streamer after flight #4. |
| Shock cord replaced after flight #11. |
| Flight | Date | Motor | Launch Site | Comments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000/03/04
| SM Park, west site
| 2000/05/29
| SM Park, east site
| 2000/08/12
| KCAR, Case farm
| 2000/12/03
| SM Park, west site
| Lost in a tree. Recovered
on 2000/12/07 by Nick Stich and George Scheil while I was at work. They used
a sling-shot and fishing pole to get it down. It came back in pretty good
shape, suffering just normal tree-recovery damage.
| 2001/03/04
| SM Park, west site
| Noticed some shock cord
damage.
| 2001/05/27
| SM Park, west site
| Came down through a tree
-- hit a branch on the way down, but landed on the ground.
| 2002/01/26
| SM Park, east site
| 2003/01/12
| SM Park, west site
| 2003/03/25
| SM Park, west site
| 2003/03/25
| SM Park, west site
| 2003/09/27
| SM Park, west site
| Separated but both
pieces landed within about 10 feet of each other.
| |
Last updated: September 9, 2009